Rowley SFX specialise in explosive effects, and have worked on the BBC’s “Peaky Blinders” as well as Netflix’s “The Stranger.” We visited them at their workshop just outside of Leeds in the north of England. More and more movies rely on visual effects to create impressive explosions, but companies like […]

A passenger at Newark Liberty International Airport tried to bring a realistic replica grenade in his checked bag on Saturday. Explosives – real or replica – are not allowed on planes. Even in checked luggage. Another passenger tried to bring a missile-launcher in his suitcase at Baltimore Airport on Monday. […]

Hollywood loves ridiculous explosions – and movie stars usually walk away from them unscathed. We had Columbia University explosives engineer Rodger Cornell rate five more explosion scenes from action movies to tell how realistic these scenes are. This time, Rodger looked at scenes from “The Rundown,” “No Country for Old […]

Irish police are assisting their London counterparts in a terror investigation after packages containing makeshift bombs were sent to two of the city’s airports and its busiest train station. Photos of the packages show the packages have Irish stamps and a return address in Dublin. No one was hurt and […]

A man tried to set off a pipe bomb strapped to his torso on Monday in New York City’s subway system. The bomb partially detonated, injuring the attacker and five others but killing no one. President Donald Trump vowed to tighten US immigration in response, but foreign-born terrorism is a […]

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The fireworks you enjoy every 4th of July are the result of a chain of chemical reactions. When a firework container is lit, its contents of coloured explosives called “stars” light up the sky. The colours that sparkle in the sky are chemical reactions happening right before your eyes. The […]

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The Broadway Bridge in Arkansas was declared structurally deficient and scheduled to come down. But when engineers detonated their explosives, the bridge was still standing.

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VIDEO: NASA has released video of their new rocket thruster for its space launch system. The footage shows the thruster through a special camera NASA calls its "Revolutionary High-Speed, High Dynamic Range Camera." It allows engineers to study the rocket's plume and search for possible flaws.

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VIDEO: The Royal Institution of Great Britain filmed an experiment with sensitive explosive nitrogen triiodide.

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